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CAL FIRE Burn Permits Required Beginning May 1

Starting May 1 CAL FIRE permits will be required for hazard reduction backyard burning. Obtain permits at burnpermit.fire.ca.gov. Applicants will be required to watch a short educational video in order to submit the application. Cal Fire will review the application then schedule a site visit to note stipulations on the permit depending on conditions at the burn location. Stipulations or… Read More
Albino Redwoods Gale McCreary Column: Gale McCreary Environment Outdoors 

Albino Redwoods: The Ghosts of the Forest

Contributors to a Mighty and Interconnected Family By Gale McCreary It is a student, crouched in the shamrock-like oxalis plants on the shady redwood forest floor, who first alerts me to the mutant. With careful steps I approach the young man as he poses, one knee on his flattened blaick backpack, the other raised as a writing table for his… Read More
Look Act Inspire SLV Museum Environment Events 

Thu-Sun through 6/30 Look. Act. Inspire. Sustaining and Expanding the Community of Naturalists in Santa Cruz County

The Norris Center for Natural History opened an in-person exhibit at the new San Lorenzo Valley Museum Felton branch location in the former library on Gushee Street. The exhibit will June 30. The exhibit – “Look. Act. Inspire. Sustaining and Expanding the Community of Naturalists in Santa Cruz County” – displays key naturalists in SCC, featuring Fred McPherson who had a strong impact… Read More
Valley Women's Club PGE Trees Commentary Environment Local News 

Commentary: Support for Resolution Against PG&E

Your speedy endorsement action is needed to support the proposal of Supervisor Bruce McPherson and Ryan Coonerty: ‘Resolution to support the County of Santa Cruz Filing a Formal Complaint Against PG&E with the CPUC’ Your response of support will show your PG&E tree removal concerns to the Board of Supervisors. PG&E has applied tree removal methods that are investigated by CalFire… Read More
Columns Environment 

Forest and Habitat Explored

By Zane Moore White ash blankets the forest, in some places even up to a foot thick. Much of the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in areas that receive the most rainfall and have the highest biomasses—mainly the old growth redwood forests of Big Basin—were burned. Sadly, based on recent satellite imagery (worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), it appears that most of this… Read More